Teousers stretcher



(No Model.)

J. DRAPER.

TROUSERS STRETGHER. No. 402,813. Patented May 7, 1889.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DRAPER, OF W'HITBY, ONTARIO, CANADA.

TROUSERS-STRETCH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,813, dated May '7, 1889.

Application filed September 27, 1888. Serial No. 286,564. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN DRAPER, of the town of WVhitby, in the county of Ontario, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, gentleman, have invented a certain new and Improved Pants-Stretcher, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to design a simply-made, effective, and easily-applied pants-stretcher; and it consists in the peculiar combinations and construction of parts, all as more fully herein after described and claimed.

The drawing is a view showing a pair of my pants-stretchers in operation, one stretcher being expanded and the other one in the act of being expanded.

In the drawing, Arepresents the bars forming my stretcher. These bars are connected together in pairs by toggle-jointed links, each link formed by a pair of plates, B, each plate of the pair being pivoted at a to one of the bars A and connected together by a bolt, 0, which passes through the slots in the plates B and through a hole in the rod D, so that by the vertical movement of the rod D the bars A may be drawn together or expanded from each other.

By making slots b in the plates B, I am en-' abled to adjust the bars A so as to suit various widths of pants.

When it is desired to stretch the legs of the pants, a pair of the bars A are inserted until their ends project through the legs of the pants, as indicated in the figure, when, by pressing down the rod D, the toggle-jointed link formed as described forces the bars A apart from the position in which they are shown in the left-hand side of the drawing to the position in which they are shown on the opposite side, in which latter position the legs of the pants should be stretched to the fullest extent desired. The upper plates, B, have horns E formed on them and shaped so that they shall come in contact with the edge of the bars A when the plates have been adjusted to the full extent desired, thus locking the platesand holding the bars A expanded.

In order to prevent the ends of the bars A tearing the carpet, I journal at the end of each bar a roller, F.

A pair of stretchers constructed as described will be very simple and cheap to make, are extremely easy to apply, and, if

used constantly, will keep a pair of pants in perfect order, effectually keeping them from bagging or wrinkling.

What I claim as my invention is- A pair of bars, A, connected together by toggle-jointed links formed by two pairs of plates, B, pivoted at a and connected together by the bolts 0, and one pair of them having horns E formedon them, as described, in com-.

bination with the rod D, pivoted on the bolt 0, arranged to operate the bars A, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, September 5, 1888.

JOHN DRAPER. In presence of CHARLES C. BALDWIN, CHAS. II. RIcHEs. 

